Malcolm H. Kerr

Malcolm Hooper Kerr (8 October 1931-18 January 1984) was President of the American University of Beirut from March 1982 to January 1984 and a university professor specializing in the Middle East and the Arab World. Born in Beirut, Lebanon to an American family, he was the third president to be born in Lebanon, and he graduated from Princeton University before working at AUB. Kerr was supposed to become President of the AUB on 1 July 1982, but the Israeli invasion of Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War delayed his entry, and he did not become president until September. He worked diligently in his College Hall office until he was killed by two Islamic Jihad Organization gunmen on 18 January 1984.